Aulus Gellius
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Aulus Gellius see Gellius, Aulus .
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Aulus Gellius
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, fl. 2d cent., Roman writer. He was a lawyer who spent at least a year in Athens and wrote Noctes Atticae [Attic nights], a collection of discussions of law, antiquities, and sundry other subjects in 20 books (of which 19 and a fraction survive). The work is chiefly valuable as a storehouse of
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